Email Collection Toolkit
Collect. Preserve. Search. Understand.
A modern, open source toolkit for making email a lasting part of the historical record.
Email has a history. Keep it
Collect, preserve, search, and understand email across old computers, backup drives, and exported accounts — while keeping the archive local and verifiable.
Preview release: alpha/beta software for testing.
Read the Windows installation instructions before installing. Older test-signed releases require trusting their included certificate. Windows installation instructions
macOS installers require Apple Silicon; Windows installers require x64. Choose your update stream in the application's Preferences panel.
Current release: v1.0.0a19 (preview) v1.0.0a19 (preview): macOS (.dmg) · Windows (.msixbundle) · Windows installation instructionsPlatform links and installation instructions
Bring together mail from exports, old computers, and backup media.
Keep original message data in an open, independently verifiable archive.
Search one local collection across accounts, sources, and decades.
Use reports and finding-aid data to understand the collection as a whole.
A record of communication
Years of projects, decisions, relationships, and everyday exchanges accumulate across mailboxes and machines. Email Collection Toolkit brings those records into one durable collection.
See how collections are used
Explore your collection
Search across years, people, subjects, and original folders. Read messages alongside their source information.
Explore searching
Consolidate supported email exports from old computers and backup drives, search across collections, and verify preserved messages.
Individual use caseProcess donor collections with source provenance, native BagIt / Mailbag storage, finding-aid data, and MBOX handoff to ePADD.
Archivist use caseOpen source · local first
Email Collection Toolkit is open-source software for personal and institutional email collections.
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Supported formats, archive design, reports, preservation, and planned work.
Announcements, feature discussions, and project questions.
Changes included in current and previous releases.